 Lou Rosenfeld
Information Architecture Expert
independent information architecture consultant, Rosenfeld Media
Lou Rosenfeld is an independent information architecture consultant, and founder and publisher of Rosenfeld Media, a publishing house focused on user experience books. He has been instrumental in helping establish the fields of information architecture and user experience, and in articulating the role and value of librarianship within those fields.
With Peter Morville, Lou co-authored the best-selling book, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, Amazon.com's "Best Internet Book of 1998." With over 100,000 in sales, it has been acclaimed as a classic and is used as a standard text in many graduate-level classes. Lou has contributed regular columns for CIO, Internet World and Web Review magazines, and has written and edited numerous other books, chapters, and scholarly articles.
Lou has participated heavily in efforts to coalesce the information architecture and user experience communities. He is co-founder and past board member of the IAI, the Information Architecture Institute, the sole professional organization of information architects. Lou played a leading role in organizing and programming the first three information architecture conferences (the 2000 and 2001 ASIS&T Summits and ACIA 2000) and continues to serve on the Summit's program committee. He is co-founder and board member of UXnet, an organization that supports cooperation and collaboration among UX-related organizations and individuals. And Lou serves or has served on advisory boards for the Content Management Professionals group, the AIGA Experience Design Community, and the Interaction Design Association, and UX Matters magazine.
Lou holds a Masters in Information and Library Studies and a B.A. in History, both from The University of Michigan. He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife and their children.
Rosenfeld Media
Rosenfeld Media publishes short, practical, and useful books on user experience design. Their books explain the design and research methods that web professionals need to make informed design decisions.
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